Word: seenes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found your article most disconcerting. In my entire life I have seen nothing so perverse as these jet-age pleasure seekers unwittingly mutilating the natural charm of an isolated environment-destroying the very reason for which they came. In a short time the salient features of Morocco will not be deserted mosques or lonely hills but the tinsel and glitter of hotels, the ugly stretches of concrete highways, and most regrettably, the ubiquitous tourist...
...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
...felt the group's curiosity about him. They were confessing themselves, and they wanted something from him; he was ten years younger that any of them--he probably would have a very exciting trip; it would be different from theirs--and they wanted to see it. He had seen them in their weakness; they wanted...
...feel close, and said, "Thank you, Elizabeth." He held her hand, and then looked around and said, "and all the rest of you too." He saw that everybody was smiling, and then felt within his won body that same high, other-world, free and beautiful feeling that he had seen on other people's faces. He returned to his place in the circle and lay on his back to practice breathing. There was silence in the room. He sat up. "Don't worry about me. I'm just lying here happily breathing," he said...
...dandies or exotics. They are trying not to do the real and natural human thing--to reach one another. These costumes add up to one thing: a pitiful attempt to be noticed in this competitive community of ours. To be witnessed, but not to be vulnerable. To be seen and not touched. It is an expression of vanity so transparent that it is embarrassing to watch. A thousand barriers protect these egos from one another...